The Latest Breaking News from Hurricane

Police are trying to link the remains to their next of kin

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster misses the bigger picture: Melissa didn’t hit stable, resilient islands. It hit islands still…

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Jamaica’s government says that the number of confirmed deaths from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 45, with 15 other people still missing

A Christian missionary father and daughter were killed after their plane crashed whilst en route to Jamaica to deliver hurricane relief supplies.

Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena died in Florida crash as they were flying supplies to Jamaica

The plane made four other trips to or from Jamaica in the past week

The plane was on its way to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa devastated the nation late last month

A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs

Hurricane Melissa has caused at least 75 deaths and potentially $50bn in damage across the Caribbean

IN DEPTH: Hurricane Melissa became the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica when it made landfall last month, destroying entire communities and ravaging the country’s economy. Aid organisations tell Alex Croft and Bryony Gooch that the rebuild will be long and painful